Hello Maintainers, until recently I was using apt-get as I did for ages. Now in a different bug report it was suggestes that I switch to apt, which I did.
Now I discovered this bug, i.e. deb files are no longer stored in
/var/cache/apt/archives.
As the submitter, I really like the behaviour of keeping the files
there and I do not use autoclean.
At least on one occurance this was vital, when an upgrade broke net
connectivity (but only after next reboot). So I was offline and the
only chance I had was to use the older deb.
This is IMHO a crucial difference between apt-get and apt.
I read apt(8) and apt.conf(5), but could not find anything about this
missing behaviour.
So it clearly needs good documentation.
I clearly support the original submitter in all of his arguements,
especially:
> Keep-Downloaded-Packages, which is an important option, is not
> documented anywhere.
For others reading this bug, this is most likely
APT::Keep-Downloaded-Packages "true";
Which I'm now trying (or switching back to apt-get).
Greetings
Helge
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